Tom Ford : Life after Gucci

[Deleted member 7575]

tom ford turned gucci into a billion dollar profit making company , pilati may make clothes which look good in museum and art galleries and are worn by prissy french people or stuck up fashion editors but in the end fashion is a global market , with people who want wearable sexy glamourous and confidident clothes , Tom ford did that and was about to make YSL a profit making brand when he left because his bosses wouldnt give him full control. Pilati makes clothes which are so gothic or just plain weird , how the hell are normal women going to wear that stuff. At the end of the day , fashion corps want to make money and even pilati has a deadline to turn YSL into a profit making company and if he is going to churn out clothes which make you look like matadors and nuns how the the hell are you going to make a profit?

FYI YSL has been doing very well financially under Pilati's directorship.

 

[saann]

Here's an article from elle.com (if it's already been posted sorry )

I love what his grandmother says when he asks her if the shoes are a bit too high

http://www.***************/image/2005/Q4/1116200513042.jpg

Who'd have guessed Tom Ford's comeback would start with a rethink of your (and his) grandmother's favorite fragrance? Maggie Bullock talks calories, cosmetics, and caftans with the master of reinvention.
Photographed by Gilles Bensimon
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Vodka and tonic in hand, crisp white shirt unbuttoned down to there, Tom Ford is standing in ELLE's New York City photo studio holding forth on how to dress—what else?—a bed. Über-model Carolyn Murphy, who at this moment is swathed in little more than a black satin sheet, is pro-linen. “No, no, no,” Ford chides, “too rough. Chafes your elbows and knees.”

A year after his abrupt departure from the helms of Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, fashion's former king of high-end kink and Estée Lauder's golden girl have formed a new beauty dream team. He is Lauder's first-ever guest designer; she is the face—and flawless body—of his inaugural project, Youth Dew Amber Nude. Dusting off a long-overlooked fragrance may not sound like a particularly Ford-worthy project, but Youth Dew happens to be a scent with a surprisingly colorful past. When it was launched, in 1953, perfume was considered a gift, not something women bought for themselves. So Estée came up with a revolutionary idea: She would introduce the fragrance as a potent, boldly sensual bath oil. After her customers were irrevocably hooked, she would give them perfume. The visionary gamble not only revved up the American fragrance game, it made Estée Lauder MVP. In a streamlined version of the original gold-beribboned bottle, Ford's lighter, clearer Amber Nude contains notes of dark chocolate, grapefruit, and (surprise) something the company calls “bare skin.” As for what her grandmother would think of the provocateur sexing up her lovingly built, family-run empire, Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, the company's senior vice president, laughs. “Everyone remembers Estée as an older woman, but she knew there was value in shocking people,” Aerin says. “She'd get a kick out of him. In her forties, she was Tom times 20.”

Why Youth Dew?

I walked in knowing I wanted it. It's the fragrance that built Estée, part of the DNA of the brand. It's iconic. Joan Crawford said it was how she snagged Alfred Steele, the Pepsi guy. And my grandmother wore it. I bought her former home in Santa Fe in 1995, and when I moved in I could still smell Youth Dew all over the house. That tells you how strong it was. The first thing we did with Amber Nude was cut the concentration of the original by 50 percent.

Wasn't your grandmother a bit of a character?

You could say that. She was the Texas version of Auntie Mame. She had six husbands, but number three was the one she loved, so she called numbers four, five, and six by his name, Harold. She was the first to wear Courrèges transparent pantsuits, the first to wear bell-bottoms. When I was a child, she was just…magic.

I read that she once had a high-heeled cast made.
Is that true?

Absolutely. At 75, she slipped on some ice in heels and a fur coat and broke her leg. The doctor made her a cast with a heel so she could still wear her shoes.

So the shoes were nonnegotiable?

She had them custom-made in Las Vegas. Her closet was full of hundreds of pairs of identical Lucite platforms with different flowers suspended in their heels to match each of her caftans. Once, she was trying on a pair and I said, “Aren't those a little high?” She had the best line: “Honey, I'm not going to let six inches stand in the way of my being beautiful.”

You're the master of telling women what we want to wear. What do we want, beauty-wise?

Young girls suddenly think it's cool to carry a tube of lipstick again. When everyone else is slathering on the same wand of lip gloss, suddenly it becomes a luxurious ritual to pull a beautiful lipstick out of your bag. The one thing I hate is seeing women put on their makeup in the car. I'm not saying you have to spend a lot of time on it, but even if it's just five minutes, it should be precise. It should be perfect.

Carolyn Murphy looks pretty perfect in the new ad.

I wanted to show a completely different side of the Estée Lauder woman—more glamorous, more evening. The fragrance itself is dark, rich, like maple syrup, so we made Carolyn look like a piece of butterscotch, like cognac, stretched out like a Playboy centerfold—a very expensive Playboy centerfold.

The Ford Formula strikes again.

Of course people will say, “Oh, it's skin, it's naked. It's so Tom Ford.” But I didn't put sex into this fragrance; it was already there. The original ad shows a woman stepping out of the shower, totally nude. You feel like you're spying on her. And that came out in 1953!

 

[rive gauche]

Thank for the article, Taz !
Had no idea that there was a launch at Colette......... , with Tom Ford....

 

[taz]

Thank for the article, Taz !
Had no idea that there was a launch at Colette......... , with Tom Ford....

how sad rive gauche, u could have a signed box of amber nude & a chat with TOM .

 

[rive gauche]

Video coverage of the party at Colette is available on :

www.parismodes.tv

 

[MariaAllegra]

...for the Article and the Link!!!!!

how sad rive gauche, u could have a signed box of amber nude & a chat with TOM .

It`s a pity.

A chat with Tom....

...what a idea.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v353/Nevanoon/smileys/d050.gif

 

[aistobasbistoc]

Doe's anyone know what happened to his attempt at directing films? I wonder if he's given it up.

 

[copper]

i love tom

he is such a strong character, i am loving his book as well B)

 

[rive gauche]

I hope nobody will hate me.....,,but I just came back from the private sales at Yves Saint Laurent.

The complete chinese collection from Tom Ford was for sale at rediculous prices....(bags 90€, shoes 60€,clothing starting from 20€....)

Anyway,I had not enough arms and legs to purchase everything.

But this makes my day, having missed the event at Colette.

 

[Spike413]

^ The YSL boutiques still had stuff from that collection????

I wonder if the one in NY does too.

Anyway, I read somewhere, and I can't recall where, that Tom was in talks about involment in a remake of The Women......I wish I could find the article.

 

[shoe_addict]

^ I loved that picture he took with Carolyn Murphy. It's a fantastic black and white picture. Captures the magic of Tom Ford.

 

[taz]

I hope nobody will hate me.....,,but I just came back from the private sales at Yves Saint Laurent.

The complete chinese collection from Tom Ford was for sale at rediculous prices....(bags 90€, shoes 60€,clothing starting from 20€....)

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oh ..ur so lucky rive gauche ..that is much cheaper than the Mall..

 

[Ybmug]

Does anyone know where i can find a lager version of this pic?
I think it's Tom with carolyn Murphy the spokesperson for his etee lauder collection?!Damn him! He is soo photogenic!!

 

[kimair]

Does anyone know where i can find a lager version of this pic?
I think it's Tom with carolyn Murphy the spokesperson for his etee lauder collection?!Damn him! He is soo photogenic!!

that's natasha poly, not carolyn murphy...i think that pic was in allure recently, but i'm not sure...

 

[MariaAllegra]

I hope nobody will hate me.....,,but I just came back from the private sales at Yves Saint Laurent.

The complete chinese collection from Tom Ford was for sale at rediculous prices....(bags 90€, shoes 60€,clothing starting from 20€....)

Anyway,I had not enough arms and legs to purchase everything.

But this makes my day, having missed the event at Colette.

WOW! You are such a lucky guy!!!

 

[MariaAllegra]

that's natasha poly, not carolyn murphy...i think that pic was in allure recently, but i'm not sure...

Yes, it was in "Allure" Nov. 2005 (the Picture have two pages)

 

[MariaAllegra]

Doe's anyone know what happened to his attempt at directing films? I wonder if he's given it up.

There were some Infos in the German "Vogue" 12/2005....I can only post it in German, because my English is to terrible to translate it. And I have no Translation-Software. Does anyone in the Internet know a good translation-Site?
Here are the Quotation from the German "Vogue" 12/2005 (by Ingeborg Harms)

"...Von sich aus kommt Tom Ford schliesslich auf das Drehbuch zu sprechen, das er kurz nach dem Ende seiner Designertätigkeit verfasst hat.
`Es ist nicht besonders gut und ziemlich egozentrisch, weil ich es mitten in meiner Depression geschrieben habe. Aber damals dachte ich, es sei fantastisch. Es spielt in Los Angeles und London und dreht sich um die Midlife-Crisis. Es gibt darin einen 15-Jährigen und ein verheiratetes Paar um die 40. Der Junge hat Probleme mit dem Erwachsenwerden, die Frau wird durch die biologische Uhr, die zugleich eine Schönheitsuhr ist, unter Druck gesetzt. Sie ist nicht glücklich in ihrer Ehe und spürt, dass sie ihr Schiff verpassen könnte. Die ganze Story ist mit schwarzem Humor erzählt- und gleichzeitig eine sehr unkonventionelle Liegesgeschichte.`
Sogar ohne nähere Kenntnis des Scripts entsteht der Eindruck, dass Ford in allen drei Hauptfiguren sich selbst porträtiert hat. Er ist nicht nur der Mann, dem die Gucci-Frau davonläuft, sondern auch die Gattin die ihre sexuelle Attraktivität dahinschwinden sieht. Und natürlich ist er der ewige Adoleszent, der eine desillusionierte Erwachsenenwelt von seiner Vision absoluter Schönheit überzeugen möchte....."

There is also something:
http://www.wwd.com/issue/article/102793

 

[Spike413]

^ That's the article I read....thanks so much MariaAllegra.

 

[MariaAllegra]

^ That's the article I read....thanks so much MariaAllegra.

In "Vogue" UK 11/2005 is some from the Movie, too:

"...Ford`s creative empire is now split between London, whre his design offices are located, New York, where he has an office at Esteè Lauder, and LA, the hub of his film work (Fade to Black`s film projects currently on the go are an adaption of an Eighteens book, a semi-biographical screenplay, and a movie set in eighteenth-century venice). .....
`...I`ve always said I wanted to do films and I have made great connections, and have the best agent and attorney. I will develop these films for myself to direct. Well, I`m Mr. Control and that`s the only way I could think about it. `
....."

By the way, the same Report, who was in "Vogue" UK 11/2005 is now in the German "GQ". And the same Pictures. But the two-pages-Picture is in the "GQ" not in the Magazine. It is on the Cover.

http://www.gq-magazin.de/gq/2/content/13262/index.php

 

[honey47]

Not directly Tom related but this article gives a glimpse of what Tom is doing for the Vanity Fair Issue he's working on


[FONT=Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=+1]Rachel McAdams refused to pose nude for magazine[/SIZE][/FONT]
source: http://www.radaronline.com/fresh-intelligence/2005/12/09/index.php
Tom Ford’s Indecent Proposal

We hear flesh-obsessed designer Tom Ford’s guest editing gig for the Vanity Fair Hollywood issue recently hit a little kink. Sources close to the glossy say demure rising starlet Rachel McAdams stormed out of a November cover shoot for the annual industry mash note, firing her publicist on the way, after finding out that the designer expected her to pose in the buff.



According to mag insiders, Ford had prearranged with McAdam’s publicist, Wolf Kasteller’s Amy Van Iden, for the in-demand Red Eye actress to appear nude in a group portrait of Hollywood’s breathtaking beauties-of-the-moment, including Keira Knightly and Scarlett Johansen. (We presume the shoot was conceived along the lines of Herb Ritt’s famous 1989 supermodel ensemble, “Stephanie Cindy Christy Tatjana Naomi,” but considering Ford’s role in the project it’s possible to imagine a raunchier scenario.)

Unfortunately for legions of mouth-breathing McAdams fans, we’re told Van Iden neglected to tell her family-friendly charge—who may have been the only actress in the Wedding Crashers to keep all her clothes on—that she would have to undress for the shoot. When she arrived on the L.A. set and found out what Ford had in mind, we’re told she turned tail and promptly fired Van Iden.

“Every magazine wants her on their cover and thinks she’s gonna be huge, so she can get away with being picky,” says a Condé Nast insider. “But everyone’s really impressed that she stood up for herself. It’s kind of amazing, actually.”

While the 29-year-old actress’s chaste retreat suggests she has a tad more dignity than the average Hollywood climber, it’s odd she was so blindsided by Ford’s concept. After all, the former Gucci designer has previously told reporters the “entire issue would be naked,” and his recent work has certainly showcased his fondness for letting it all hang out—he posed au naturel for a 22-page spread in last month’s W, his new line of cosmetics for Estee Lauder is called Amber Nude, his ad campaign for the fragrance Youth Dew features a naked Carolyn Murphy, and an advertisement he produced for a new line of sunglasses reportedly features p*rn stars whom he says were paid “to have sex on set.”

Neither Ford nor VF spokeswoman Beth Kseniak returned calls about the shoot. McAdam’s manager, Shelley Browning, confirmed that McAdams “presently does not have a publicist,” but she would not comment on the incident and referred questions about the photo session to the magazine. Van Iden herself did not return calls.